成語解釋
拉一下衣襟就露出胳膊肘兒，形容衣服破爛。比喻顧此失彼，窮於應付。 襟，衣襟；肘，胳膊肘；見，通“現”，呈現、露出。也可比喻成資金、物質條件，以及能力上的匱乏或欠缺。
現代例句:需要安排的工作這么多，需要來考察項目的新朋友這么多，可是我能用的人實在太少了，真是捉襟見肘啊。
成語典故
《莊子·讓王》：“十年不製衣，正冠而纓絕，捉襟而肘見，納履而踵決。”
成語辨析
【近義詞】左支右絀、顧此失彼、疲於奔命、入不敷出、寅吃卯糧、衣不蔽體、衣衫襤褸、百孔千瘡
【語法】連動式；作謂語、賓語、定語；含貶義
英文解釋
簡明釋義
pull down one's jacket to conceal the raggedness, only to expose one's elbows；be coming out at the elbows；be hard up；be in straitened circumstances；
例句
綢衣接了又接，還是捉襟見肘。
The blue silk coat extends itself again and again but still fails to catch up.
一些歐佩克成員國已將各自捉襟見肘的預算建立在油價比當前水平高20至30美元的基礎上。
Some opec member will have too many problems to tackle respectively budget establishment in oil price compared tocurrent level high in20to30us dollars foundations.
但診斷過程往往費時費力，一份測驗施測後的計分，以致於如何根據測驗的結果進行補救教學，常令教師捉襟見肘，造成施行上的困難。
And the diagnosis always cost much time and effort, just like scoring the examinations and then conducting the remedialinstruction by the testing result. It always makes the teachers have too many difficulties to cope with, and causing thedifficulties to execute.
由於有些同學在思想上還沒有這種認識上的轉變，背單詞時還停留在一詞一義，一詞一用的階段，儘管背了不少單詞，做起題來仍然捉襟見肘、處處被動。
Because some schoolmates did not have in this kind of understanding transformation in the thought that carries when theword also pauses in a word righteousness, as soon as a word uses stage, although has carried many words, started thetopic still to have too many problems to tackle, to be everywhere passive.
